Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter


0

Stanford Considers Co-Ed Rooms

Students clamor for change, say it's about comfort, not sex

Share

(Newser) – Stanford students want co-ed dorm rooms, and the administration may take them up on the idea. "It's not about sex," one student told the San Jose Mercury News, but about feeling "comfortable in your living space." Transgender students started the initiative to build on the school's anti-discrimination policies, but now both gay and straight students have rallied behind the idea.

"Why shouldn't I have this option?" asked a heterosexual female student. A male student says he detests the locker-room machismo of male rooms and would be more comfortable with girls. Stanford wouldn't be the first: CalTech, Dartmouth, and NYU have made the switch, though others, including Duke, have rejected the idea. No word yet from Stanford parents, the News notes.

Stanford dormitories went coed in 1966, and now students want coed rooms as well.
Stanford dormitories went coed in 1966, and now students want coed rooms as well.   (Shutterstock)
Stanford students want to extend the unversity's gender-blind policy to dorm rooms.
Stanford students want to extend the unversity's gender-blind policy to dorm rooms.   (Shutterstock)
Stanford students argue that pushing for co-ed dorm rooms has nothing to do with wanting to hook up with the opposite sex.
Stanford students argue that pushing for co-ed dorm rooms has nothing to do with wanting to hook up with the opposite sex.   (Shutterstck)
« Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow
OFF THE GRID
11.24.09
Murdoch and Microsoft: The Mice Are Trying to Roar
11.23.09
Books Are Bad for You
0 comments
VIEWING:
 
LEAVE A
COMMENT Comment Policy
Facebook ConnectPost this comment to Facebook?

After connecting you will have the option to post your comment on your Facebook profile.

 

Related Newser Stories

200 Stories

College Threatens to Fail Students for Obesity

Twenty-five seniors must prove they've lost weight to graduate

Nov 21, 09 11:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Twenty-five seniors at a university in Pennsylvania must prove they've lost weight in order to graduate this spring. The unusual requirement stems from a policy Lincoln University put in place fours ago: Incoming freshmen with a body mass index of 30, the threshold for obesity, must take a nutrition class... More »

MORE ABOUT:
obesity • obesity epidemic • college • graduation • Lincoln University

 Pre-Lady Gaga Wowed NYU 

She used to be Stefani Germanotta, student

Nov 20, 09 2:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Before she was an over-the-top star dogged by rumors that she's intersex, Lady Gaga was babelicious Stefani Germanotta, a New York University student with a killer voice who wowed her classmates at a 2005 talent show. Gaga strutted her new stuff for fictional students of her near-alma-mater (she never graduated... More »

MORE ABOUT:
transgender • New York University • singer • Gossip Girl • Lady Gaga • Tisch School of the Arts

College Bosses Earn
Record $1M+ Pay

Despite recession, school leaders' pay grows—with tuition

Nov 2, 09 5:14 AM CST
(Newser) - Lean times can go to the back of the class when it comes to college presidents. A record 23 of them raked in more than $1 million last year, up from nine in 2007. Not so surprisingly, many of presidents reigned at institutions among the 58 which charged more than... More »

MORE ABOUT:
president • college • university • income • millionaires

200 Stories


Voices from the Stanford student body
Stanford Daily

College student defines 'transgender'
The Daily Princetonian


US  •  Arts & Living 
TwitterFollow @NewserUS on Twitter

 
Stanford University • college • transgender • college dorms

from our news partners